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metrocinema JULY / AUGUST 2018 guide WHERE COMMUNITY MEETS CINEMA PRACTICALLY AWESOME THE ROOM 15TH ANNIVERSARY ISLE OF DOGS INDIA FILM FEST OF ALBERTA RBG BEACH PARTY! FRINGE ‘O’ SAURUS CIELO UNBREAKABLE SISTERHOOD SKATE KITCHEN – OPENS AUG 31 metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, Edm AB T6G 1E9 www.metrocinema.org metrocinema.org 1 Pump House Crafty Radler and Blueberry Ale, Perfect summer drinks for the deck or patio. Pick some up today wherever great craft beer is sold. www.pumphouse.beer Please enjoy responsibly. METRO CINEMA .ORG METRO RETRO Page: 16 MUSIC DOCS P age: 10 metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, Edm AB T6G 1E9 TEL 780 425 9212 www.metrocinema.org FACEBOOK /metrocinema TWITTER & INSTAGRAM @themetrocinema SERIES HIGHLIGHTS ADMISSION Adult $13 Student/Senior $10 (Matinee $8) Children 12 & Under $8 PASSES Night at the Movies $30 Adult Six Pack $60 S UNDAY CLASSICS Student/Senior Six Pack $50 Page: 10 P age: 10 Silver Screen $300 S CI-FI CINEMA METRO OPERATIONS Dan Nielsen – President Heather Noel – Vice President Randal Pruss – Treasurer Alex Dimitroff – Secretary JD Crookshanks, Steve Grubich, Sandy Hoye, METRO CINEMA is a community based not for profit society devoted to creating and fostering Brad Stromberg, Hitomi Suzuta, opportunities for the exhibition of diverse and unique shared viewing experiences in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. We believe that film and media art are significant art forms; a means of commu- Connie Zimmerman – Directors nication, discussion, and education. Metro Cinema believes in providing opportunities for diverse David Cheoros – Executive Director community and programming. Dan Smith – Operations Manager Pete Harris – Programming Manager Katie Sowden – Communications Director Allan Mulholland – Facility Manager Bill Samoil – Financial Officer Brad Sime – Booth Manager/Head Projectionist Talicia Dutchin – Communications Specialist/ House Manager Nic Keating – Operations Assistant/ Projectionist/House Manager Ryn Climenhaga – Programming Assistant/ House Manager Owen Armstrong – Projectionist Tola Adeshina, Shania Taylor, METRO CINEMA IS GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ALBERTA MEDIA ARTS ALLIANCE, Robyn-Lynn Toll – House Managers ALBERTA MEDIA PRODUCTION INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, CJSR, FAVA, VUE WEEKLY Lucy Ford, William Latham, Tim Rechner AND THE HARPER-KENNEDY FUND AT THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. – Front of House Reps Luka Morita, Sarah Nocente, Max Rubin, METRO CINEMA RECOGNIZES OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND WISHES TO Emma Wolodko - Summer Interns ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAPASCHASE FIRST NATION ON WHOSE UNCEDED LAND THE GARNEAU THEATRE OCCUPIES. metroguidecinema NEW RELEASES Page 6 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Isle of Dogs & EVENTS Page 17 Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami Practically Awesome Disobedience - The Terminator Let the Sunshine In - Clash of the Titans (1981) Vampire Clay - The Thing (1982) Zama - Jaws RBG Backstage Tour Fireworks The University of Alberta Pride Alumni Lu Over the Wall Chapter and Business Alumni Association The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Kinky Boots Cielo Wes Anderson’s First & Latest Skate Kitchen - Bottle Rocket - Isle of Dogs FIFA World Cup Semi-Finals & Final BAD GIRLS MOVIE CLUB SERIES & REPERTORY Page 8 Rapid Fire Theatre - DROWNING MONA Metro Movie Party! - Folk Lordz - The Room – 15th Anniversary India Film Festival of Alberta - Beach Party Japanese Masters Reel Family Cinema - Ikiru - The Dark Crystal - Hidden Fortress – 60th Anniversary - The Great Muppet Caper - Yojimbo - Matilda This is Parkdale - Spy Kids FAVA Sunday Classics - Video Kitchen - The African Queen - Main Course - Oliver! – 50th Anniversary Cats or Dogs Sci-Fi Cinema - Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit - The Children of Men - Isle of Dogs - Barbarella – 50th Anniversary Reclaiming Our Narrative Music Docs - New Muslim Cool - Turn it Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk Fringe ‘O’ Saurus - Two Trains Runnin’ StoryHive Night Gallery CALENDAR Page 12 CINEMA OF PSYCHEDELIA - Dementia 13 - KUSO - Midnite til Dawn: Post-Apocalypse! Staff Pics - Moon Bad Girls Movie Club - Drowning Mona The Cinema of Psychedelia - Kuso Metro Retro - Bullit – 50th Anniversary - Yellow Submarine – 50th Anniversary Art Docs - Breaking The Frame HOMO-CIDAL Drag Show - Cruising NIGHT GALLERY - DEMENTIA 13 4 metrocinema.org GOING OUT? WE'RE OPEN LATE 10015 82 Ave (Whyte Avenue) STAYING IN? WE DELIVER! 780 469 3517 Order [email protected] after the credits roll... JULY & AUGUST 2018 SCHEDULE There’s always something new at Metro. Visit metrocinema.org to find all our new releases, and the most up to date film listings, show times, and other information. NEW RELEASES Isle of Dogs Vampire Clay (Chi o sû nendo) Germany/USA 2018, 101 min, Disobedience Japan 2017, 80 min, Dir: Sôichi Umezawa Dir: Wes Anderson Ireland/UK/USA 2017, 114 min, Japanese with subtitles JUL 6 @ 7PM, JUL 7 @ 9:30PM, Dir: Sebastián Lelio JUL 22 @ 9PM, JUL 24 @ 9PM JUL 9 @ 9PM, JUL 11 @ 7PM, JUL 16 @ 9:15PM, JUL 17 @ 9:30PM, After studying in Tokyo, Kaori returns to Aina Academy to finish her prep classes for art JUL 12 @ 9:30PM, AUG 8 @ 9PM JUL 19 @ 9:30PM A woman returns to the Orthodox Jewish com- school. Quickly outshining her jealous class- When, by executive decree, all the canine pets of mates, she soon becomes the star of the class Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump munity that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions when she discovers a bag of old, mysterious clay called Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari sets off and uses it for sculpting assignments. Things alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality. begin to get strange, however, when students’ across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, projects are destroyed and one of Kaori’s Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of classroom rivals disappears. As the students newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic uncover that the clay is possessed by an artist journey that will decide the fate and future of the who previously owned the building and died entire Prefecture. tragically in his workshop, the school finds itself attacked by a gang of murderous, bloodthirsty clay “vampires.” Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) France/Belgium 2017, 94 min, Dir: Claire Denis Zama Grace Jones: Bloodlight & French with subtitles Argentina/Brazil/Spain/Dominican Republic/ France/Netherlands/Mexico/Switzerland/ Bami JUL 20 @ 7PM, JUL 22 @ 7PM, JUL 23 @ 9:30PM, JUL 24 @ 7PM, USA/Portugal/Lebanon 2017, 115 min, Ireland/UK 2017, 115 min, JUL 26 @ 9:30PM Dir: Lucrecia Martel Dir: Sophie Fiennes Isabelle is a divorced Parisian painter searching Spanish with subtitles JUL 12 @ 7PM, JUL 18 @ 9:30PM for another shot at love, but refusing to settle JUL 27 @ 7PM, JUL 28 @ 9:30PM, This electrifying journey through the public and for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace in and out of her life. There’s a caddish banker JUL 29 @ 3:30PM, JUL 30 @ 7PM, Jones contrasts musical sequences with inti- who, like many of her lovers, happens to be mar- AUG 2 @ 9:30PM mate personal footage, all the while brimming ried; a handsome actor who’s working through Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in with Jones’s bold aesthetic. Taking viewers his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist South America, waits for a letter from the King home with her to Jamaica, into the studio with who’s skittish about commitment. What reads granting him a transfer to a better place. His long-time collaborators Sly & Robbie, and like a standard romantic comedy premise is situation is delicate. He must ensure that noth- backstage at gigs around the world, the film transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker ing overshadows his transfer. The years go by reveals Jones as lover, daughter, mother, and Denis, into something altogether deeper, more and the letter from the King never arrives. When businesswoman. poignant, and perceptive about the profound Zama realizes everything is lost, he joins a party mysteries of love. of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. 6 metrocinema.org RBG Lu Over the Wall (Yoake USA 2018, 97 min, tsugeru Rû no uta) Dir: Julie Cohen, Betsy West Japan 2017, 112 min, Dir: Masaaki Yuasa AUG 3 @ 7PM, AUG 4 @ 3:15PM, Japanese with subtitles Cielo AUG 5 @ 7PM, AUG 6 @ 12:30PM, AUG 9 @ 7PM, AUG 11 @ 1PM, Canada/Chile 2017, 78 min, AUG 6 @ 7PM, AUG 7 @ 9:15PM, AUG 15 @ 7PM AUG 9 @ 9:15PM Kai lives in a small fishing town with his super- Dir: Alison McAlpine At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice stitious grandfather that warns him of the dan- Spanish, English, & French with subtitles Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breath- gers of the merfolk, who he believes will cause AUG 31 @ 7PM, SEP 1 @ 2PM, taking legal legacy while becoming an unex- them harm. When confronted by bullies, Kai is pected pop culture icon. But without a definitive helped by Lu, a fun-loving mermaid who loves SEP 2 @ 7PM, SEP 3 @ 4PM, Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey music but is vulnerable to sunlight. With a local SEP 4 @ 9:30PM, SEP 6 @ 7:15PM of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the na- seafood company posing a threat to the town and Cielo is a cinematic reverie on the crazy beauty tion’s highest court has been largely unknown, a number of its inhabitants hostile towards the of the night sky, as experienced in the Atacama even to some of her biggest fans, until now. mer people, Lu, Kai, and his friends must band Desert, Chile, one of the best places on our together to ensure both communities survive. planet to explore and contemplate its splendour.